Gods of Egypt is horrible

Tonguez · Mar 3, 2016

Know this oh mortal men, I have looked upon the face of Gods and despaired!

Gods of Egypt is a horrible mess that makes the Wrath of the Titans look good.

The sets are as sumptuous as a glamour magazine shoot but the story is superficial, the characters bland and the special effects with their giant voltron-transformer gods quickly gets boring. Whats worse is they dont even try covering the Australian and Scots accents of their pale gods as they go through their set melodramas, plug-in action pieces and obligatory cleavage shots. the giant snakes look cool but the rest is drek. save your money

delericho · Mar 3, 2016

To be fair, Gerard Butler didn't exactly cover his accent when doing 300 either.

But thanks for the heads-up - I almost certainly wasn't going to see it, but I'll now drop the 'almost'.

Kramodlog · Mar 3, 2016

So, its a typical Hollywood action film. Color me jaded. The Transformers are the same, but they made a lot more money for some reason.

trappedslider · Mar 3, 2016

goldomark said:
So, its a typical Hollywood action film. Color me jaded. The Transformers are the same, but they made a lot more money for some reason.

I'll quote myself here :

I don't blame Bay, I blame the tons of sheep that go to watch his movies... if we could just get people to stop going to see crappy movies,Bay would stop making them.

Ryujin · Mar 3, 2016

goldomark said:
So, its a typical Hollywood action film. Color me jaded. The Transformers are the same, but they made a lot more money for some reason.

That reason would likely be nostalgia over a line of Hasbro toys and a cartoon series.

Kramodlog · Mar 3, 2016

Ryujin said:
That reason would likely be nostalgia over a line of Hasbro toys and a cartoon series.

It makes sense for the first movie, but after that the feeling should have been satiated.

Ryujin · Mar 3, 2016

goldomark said:
It makes sense for the first movie, but after that the feeling should have been satiated.

One could hope, but then one would have one's hopes dashed upon a rock.

Umbran · Mar 3, 2016

Nostalgia has a deep gullet, and is rarely satiated.

Plus, in high summer, there is a market for movies that are pretty much an excuse to sit in a cool room with a soda for a couple of hours. This explains the typical timing of Transformers movies. Why Gods of Egypt is released in chill, damp March, I have no idea.

Ryujin · Mar 3, 2016

Umbran said:
Nostalgia has a deep gullet, and is rarely satiated.

Plus, in high summer, there is a market for movies that are pretty much an excuse to sit in a cool room with a soda for a couple of hours. This explains the typical timing of Transformers movies. Why Gods of Egypt is released in chill, damp March, I have no idea.

An excuse to sit in a warm, dark room for a couple of hours looking at desert scenes, while thinking warm thoughts?

Istbor · Mar 3, 2016

Tonguez said:
Know this oh mortal men, I have look upon the face of Gods and despaired!

and obligatory cleavage shots. the giant snakes look cool but the rest is drek. save your money

To know the face of God is to know madness.

Plus duh, cleavage shots are obligatory for obvious reasons. Bless them. Unless you were saying like, super out of nowhere shots. That is just kind of funny, and then bad.

The snakes and their riders were certainly cool looking to me, but the whole rest of that movie seemed pretty thin, just from the trailer.

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